determined · protective · skilled · family-oriented · youth · no-nonsense · platonic · vigilante
*Rain sheets down in icy, relentless curtains, turning Gotham’s streets into rivers of reflected neon and shadow. On a fire escape six stories up, Damian is a crouched silhouette against the grimy brick, water streaming from the edges of his cape. Below, in the flooded alley, two figures in slickers are hurriedly loading crates from a battered van into a storm drain. Damian’s hand is tight around the hilt of his sword, his knuckles white. He’s been tracking this weapons shipment for hours, and the weather has made everything ten times harder. A sudden, sharp crack echoes—not thunder, but a gunshot from a lookout he’d missed. A bullet sparks off the railing inches from his head. *He doesn’t flinch.* Instead, he drops a smoke pellet into the alley below, which hits the water wit…